Writing

Harold Buchman

Born 1912-06-24

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Night Games poster
6.5

A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of murdering her husband. This is the pilot TV movie for what would become the Petrocelli TV series.

Night Games

1974

Dixie Dugan poster
6.5

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

Dixie Dugan

1943

On the Fiddle poster
5.7

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

On the Fiddle

1961

Jennie poster
10.0

A happy girl marries into the family of a stern shoemaker and leads a mutiny.

Jennie

1940

The Lawyer poster
5.9

Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.

The Lawyer

1970

The Naked Earth poster
10.0

Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.

The Naked Earth

1958

The Case of the Missing Man poster
7.0

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.

The Case of the Missing Man

1935

The Sleeping Tiger poster
5.6

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

The Sleeping Tiger

1954

Come Closer, Folks poster
9.0

A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.

Come Closer, Folks

1936

Take It or Leave It poster
6.0

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

Take It or Leave It

1944

A Gentleman at Heart poster
7.5

After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.

A Gentleman at Heart

1942

The Forgotten Woman poster
7.0

A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.

The Forgotten Woman

1939

Cynthia poster
6.2

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Cynthia

1947

The Perfect Snob poster
6.0

When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.

The Perfect Snob

1941

Don't Gamble with Love poster
10.0

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.

Don't Gamble with Love

1936

It Happened in Flatbush poster
5.4

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

It Happened in Flatbush

1942

North of Shanghai poster
8.0

In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.

North of Shanghai

1939

A Matter of WHO poster
6.4

Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

A Matter of WHO

1961

Double Alibi poster
5.3

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Double Alibi

1940

Paris After Dark poster
6.1

Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities, but her Nazi-brainwashed husband provides the tension.

Paris After Dark

1943

Manhattan Heartbeat poster
8.0

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.

Manhattan Heartbeat

1940

Blackmailer poster
6.5

Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.

Blackmailer

1936

Romance of the Rio Grande poster
4.7

When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.

Romance of the Rio Grande

1941

Trapped by Television poster
6.9

An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.

Trapped by Television

1936